• How YOU can get to space
• How Python can get you there

be awesome and dedicated

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make cool stuff!

The programmer… works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff…

Yet the program construct is real in the sense that it moves and works… separate from the construct itself.

• a way to run code
• in space

• Cheap hardware
• Fast hardware
• Free software
• Priz€ Mone¥

• Runs code?
• In space?

• In space? YEP
• Runs code? OH YEAH

• photography
• experiments
• communication

• Sputnik

• Runs code
• In space.
• w00t.

• Camera
• Phone
• Embedded system

• Runs code
• "near space"
• CLOSE ENOUGH.

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• Hardware: proprietary
• Software: custom

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• Hardware: proprietary
• Software: custom
• Time: years
• Run By: The Government™

• Money: $$$
• People: |||

• Money: $$$
• People: |||
• Hardware: commodity
• Software: open source / custom

• Money: $$$
• People: |||
• Hardware: commodity
• Software: open source / custom
• Time: months (to years)
• Run By: Private

• Run code
• Maybe in space?

• Lots of challenges
• Robots that drive themselves

• Robots that drive... ON THE MOON

• Linux boxes
• With wheels

• Robot OS or ROS

• Ubuntu

• Ubuntu
• Package system

• Ubuntu
• Package system (2k+ packages)

• Ubuntu
• Package system
• Messages

• Ubuntu
• Package system
• Messages
• Full Python support

• Basic comprehension

• Math

• Hard math -> There's already code out there

• Seeing: OpenCV

• OpenCV
• Planning/Coordination: ROS

• OpenCV
• ROS
• Mapping: PointCloud

• OpenCV → Python
• ROS → Python
• PointCloud → Python

• "Live" bugs

• "Live" bugs -> Live debugging!

• BUILD COOL STUFF